River Avon, Warwick

River Avon,  Warwick

If you would like to know what is to my right, have a look here: Pasadena Daily Photo and you can also read all about Petrea Burchard's, soon to be published book, Camelot & Vine.  Because of Petrea, I was inspired to go and take pictures around Warwick Castle.  Gosh, what a fantastic place and only just down the road from Coventry.


Back to Shrewsbury tomorrow.  (I felt the need to interrupt my visit up north to link today's photo in with the Pasadena Daily Photo.  Can you blame me.)

A Modest Abode, Hill Wootton, Warwickshire

Blackdown Mill

Hill Wootton can be found just off the main road between Royal Leamington Spa and Kenilworth.  Every time I drive by I am tempted to explore.  Well, now I have.  This enormous Grade II Listed Building has history linking the mill with Coombe Abbey. A historian I am not so I will spare you the injustice of trying to summarise the titbits of information scattered on the web, except to say that this is an 18th Century mill house sitting nicely along side the River Avon and it is now a home.

Too dark to photo thru port cullis to see mill driving cog wheels, etc.

PS.  I may have learned something totally unrelated to
this house but to do with the word 'titbits'.  Now I always thought
that word was 'tidbits'.  Could it  be that 'tid' is a US variation of
the word.  Apparently so....but after living in the UK for nearly 40 years...well, I am surprised.